"General, there is an envoy from the Great Food Empire who wants to see you." At the beginning of April of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, Qu Chengxing had just returned to the Persian Governor's Mansion from the Suez City construction site and was about to be ordered to form the Persian fleet, when he also received a report from the guards, which made him frown, and before he could speak, he heard the whispers of the guards again, "General General, General Zhang of the Anxi Corps is already waiting for you in the city of the Persian Governor's Palace, and I heard that I brought the order of the Marshal Wan of the Western Expeditionary Army." ”

"Then you reply to the Great Food Empire for me, just say that I have military priorities to deal with here, and I will come back tomorrow." Qu Chengxing directly blocked the Great Food Envoy back, and then led people off the warship and went straight to the Persian Governor's Mansion Post Station, where he met Zhang Sheng. Because the Western Fleet is mainly stationed in Xihai County, according to the latest fleet formation list sent by the Admiralty, the operational area of the Western Fleet is in the waters east of the Tianzhu Peninsula, and the Persian Fleet was reorganized in the Persian Governorate and its west, and he himself was transferred from the general position of the Western Fleet to the post of the Persian Fleet. However, there was no news from the Admiralty that the command of the Persian fleet was assigned to the command of the Western Expeditionary Army, but Qu Chengxing also knew that at present, as the only wartime group army in the Tang Dynasty, the Western Expeditionary Army itself was responsible for dealing with all emergencies in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty, and the power given by the General Staff was also to mobilize all the Tiance Army troops stationed in the northwest when necessary. So after Qu Chengxing saw Zhang Sheng, Zhang Sheng said directly: "General Qu, according to the latest news from the dark guard, the Mediterranean naval battle will be carried out in the near future, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also received a request from the Great Food Empire, asking us to send some officers to assist them in integrating the navy. The General Staff has already asked the command of the Western Expeditionary Army to dispose of it at its discretion. This is the order given to you by the marshal. ”

"What does the marshal mean to let me send a staff officer-level officer and some of the backbone forces to help them?" After reading Wan Yi's order, Qu Chengxing muttered: "According to the prediction of our navy, even if we are replaced with our people, we are afraid that relying on the current equipment and training level of the Great Food Imperial Navy, it will be able to last for half a year at most, that is, one year, and in a year, the main force of the current Mediterranean Fleet of the Great Food Navy will be completely annihilated, this is a matter of strength gap, and it is not something that can be made up by transferring some officers to rely on some tactical innovations in the past." I don't know why the marshal is doing this? ”

Qu Chengxing's question Zhang Sheng understood, and the reason why he came to pass the order in person was also to explain his doubts, so when he heard this, he said: "General Qu, the General Staff has been ordered by the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army, and it is necessary to do everything possible to prolong the war between Dashi and Daqin, and drag it on as long as possible. Therefore, the Great Food Navy cannot be defeated so quickly, and it must hold back the Great Qin Navy for a period of time, so that the land and navy of the two countries will inevitably produce diametrically opposite results in battle, and only in this way will the two countries form a tug-of-war and thus fear each other, and each other will use their own advantages to disrupt their own deployments. "Zhang Sheng has been learning the new command system and tactics of the Tang Dynasty from You Xikun, the chief of staff sent to the Anxi Corps, in the past few years, and has made great progress, so the explanation is quite good, "General Qu, the officers you sent in the past must find a way to postpone the final result of the Mediterranean naval battle, so that they can delay the Daqin Navy for a long time and make it unable to assist the army." And after the Great Food Empire's navy is suppressed on all fronts, it will also cause the army to dare not advance too much. After all, according to the current comparison of the strength of the two armies, the Great Qin Army is not the opponent of the Great Cannibal at all. ”

"If that's the case, then I'll have to figure it out." Qu Chengxing nodded and said, "General Zhang, please help me convey to the marshal, Qu Chengxing and the entire Western Fleet will do their best to complete the military orders given by the marshal." ”

After Qu Chengxing received the military order, he immediately returned to the battleship and summoned several staff officers around him to start deducing according to the latest news from the current secret guard, the strength of the two armies currently on the table, the number of warships and each other's level, and at the same time sent someone to quickly order Li Guixin, who was currently stationed in Suez City to carry out patrols in the Red Sea region, asking him to immediately rush to Wolong Port and wait for him to pass.

And the next day, Qu Chengxing also saw the envoy sent by the Great Food Empire to ask for his own envoy this time, but what made him feel strange was that this envoy turned out to be Amdullah, the main general who came to the Persian Governorate to receive the new warship. It seems that the Great Food Empire is really in a hurry, so it will directly send its own admiral over.

"General Qu, I have been ordered to come and ask the respected Tang Empire to send a few experienced generals to help us win the Mediterranean naval battle." Amdullah is a soldier, so he is not good at politeness, and after the two hurriedly saluted, he said directly: "The general must also know, although my Great Food Empire has a strong army and is not afraid of the Romans in the north, but our navy is not their opponent, so we have to turn to our Shangguo, the Tang Empire and the Great Tiance Army, hoping that the general can help us." Amdullah said these words with a hint of admiration, the ironclad battleship of the Tang Dynasty made all the big cannibals he had seen drool, but in this regard, the Great Thangka was very dead, not only strictly prohibiting the export of similar technologies but also the blockade was very strict, even the local shipyards of the Persian Governorate had countless troops stationed on the spot, and secretly I don't know how many secret agents were secretly watching, so that these people could not contact the workers of the other party at all, and they didn't even have the opportunity to talk to each other. And the people who were sent to teach him how to control the warship were obviously members of the regular navy troops, and he didn't know where to start. In fact, not only the ironclad warships can't eat, but even those civilian ships have tried their best to get nothing, whether these fleets are transporting goods to Baghdad or Suez, they are basically under the supervision of the Tang Navy, and I heard that the other party's intelligence organization is very closely censored, and basically every person who goes to sea for overseas trade has to go through strict scrutiny, and it will not work if they want to buy it. Moreover, the most important point is that even if the Tang Dynasty is willing to sell these warships to himself, before the canal is dug up, there is a land gap of hundreds of miles between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, so is it difficult to fly over?

Amdullah's thoughts don't dare to say it, the Tang Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, so strong that these generals don't want to think about what will happen if the Tang Dynasty wants to do something against the Great Food one day, after all, the Romans in the north have already made the Great Food Empire do their best, not to mention the Tang Empire, which is no longer in sight. No wonder the businessmen who have been to the Tang Dynasty come back and say that it is a heavenly kingdom.

"General Amdullah, I have received an order from my superiors to assist you. However, I, the Foreign Affairs Department of Datang, have reiterated to Daqin before that Datang cannot meddle in Taixi's affairs. So with all due respect, I Datang can't directly send military forces to participate in your struggle, otherwise it will be a violation of my Datang's foreign strategy, and I myself will be punished by military law. Qu Chengxing's words made Amdullah a little disappointed and relieved at the same time, after all, the reason why Datang didn't help himself was to abide by his external commitments, it seems that Datang is still the empire a hundred years ago, and he takes his promises very seriously. This is a good thing for both Daqin and Dashi. So Amdullah quickly adjusted his thoughts, and asked in a hurried voice: "Please general, for the sake of our country's sincerity to Datang, you must help." ”

Looking at the bearded Amdullah in front of him, Qu Chengxing waved his hand and said: "General, don't worry, so the command of my Tang Western Expeditionary Army also sent an order for me to act at my discretion, my idea is that I will send a capable member to your navy fleet, responsible for providing the most detailed tactical planning and command advice to your navy commander, so as to help you drag it to the Grand Canal as much as possible, so that the new warships you ordered from my Datang can form a new fleet to participate in the war, I think that relying on the sharpness of Datang's new warships and our help in training and training, the new fleet will definitely be able to surprise the Daqin Navy. Qu Chengxing's method did not satisfy the other party, but Amdullah also knew that he was only afraid that the other party's authority was only so much, and for the old navy on the Mediterranean side, Amdullah himself did not have much confidence in being able to defeat the Great Qin, so he thought about it and nodded: "The general's hard work Amdullah understands, on behalf of my great caliph, I would like to express my gratitude to the Tang Dynasty, and I also thank the general for helping me eat the navy." It's just that the general wants to hold a joint exercise with your army near the Persian Gulf tomorrow, and I hope that the general will give more guidance at that time. ”

"The general is polite. Tomorrow, I also happen to have some tactics that I need to explain to you in advance. Since Qu Chengxing had already agreed to this matter, he did not go around in circles, and immediately ordered the two Izumo-class warships stationed in the Persian Governorate to prepare for a joint exercise tomorrow on behalf of the six new warships of the Western Fleet and the Great Food Navy. And he began to think about how to arrange next to help the Great Food Navy drag down the footsteps of the Great Qin Navy.

In fact, for the tactics of wooden sailing ships and warships, the only people who can have combat experience on the Datang side are afraid that in addition to Qu Chengxing, only Qian Biao, who served as the political envoy of Khotan, has some experience. After all, the Datang Navy has directly entered the era of ironclad warships and artillery weapons since Guo Chongtao was ordered to form, and the combat experience of the previous sail warships is lackluster. Qu Chengxing rubbed his head and thought carefully about the tactics of those naval engagements when he was in the town navy in the past, and what kind of tactics should be implemented by the wooden battleships after they had artillery, so as to achieve better results.

"The results of the war games of the Mediterranean naval battle have come out." Qu Chengxing only came up with a clue here, and the staff officer walked in and reported: "According to the current situation, the Great Qin Navy will completely annihilate the main force of the Great Food Navy within three months, and then it can send about 100,000 troops to land in Egypt under the cover of the Navy at one time and invade Egypt." ”

"Three months? It's short enough. Qu Chengxing shook his head and smiled bitterly: "What about the results of your second wargame?" What if my army sends manpower to assist the Great Food Navy? ”

"The Great Food Navy can't last more than half a year, and we need our army to equip each of their detachments with a staff officer." The staff officer didn't know what Qu Chengxing was thinking, so he said directly: "The premise is that all levels of the Great Food Navy need to follow the advice of our army and be equipped with a complete flag transmission system. ”

"Tomorrow, the people from your fleet staff office will participate in a joint exercise with the Great Food Navy." Qu Chengxing said: "I will go to Wolong Port early tomorrow morning, and after you participate in the exercise, you will stay in the Persian Governor's Mansion and wait for the chief of staff to come, and then rush to Wolong Port to meet me." ”

"What tactics will be practiced in tomorrow's joint exercise?" The staff officer's name is Wu Sanxing, and he is also a new generation of cadets who Qu Chengxing transferred from the Naval Academy the year before last, and his mind is very flexible, and he has already guessed Qu Chengxing's mind at this time, so he asked tentatively.

"Just practice the tactics of sea guerrillas, and don't teach them anything else. But you can teach you all this sea guerrilla tactic. Qu Chengxing's eyes flashed and said, "This is the most suitable tactic for them." Not only the new warships they received, but also the old sailing ships on the Mediterranean side, this tactic is the best way to defeat the strong with the weak. ”

"The general system is talking about wolf pack tactics?" Wu Sanxing nodded and stood aside and said: "Judging from the batch of warships they received, the wolf pack tactic is indeed the most suitable tactic, and even if it is properly manipulated, it will be effective against us, but they are afraid that they may not be able to achieve actual results on the Mediterranean side." According to the news from Xuanyingwei's side, the Great Food Navy is not only poorly equipped, but also their tactical concepts are also very backward, and they still pay attention to one-on-one jumping, wasting the artillery we provided to them in vain. ”

"Since you are so familiar with wolf pack tactics, then give you a chance, and when the time comes, follow Li Guixin to the Mediterranean Sea to help the Great Food Empire Navy." Qu Chengxing's eyes lit up, Wu Sanxing had a very thorough view of the naval strength of the Great Food Empire, so this also made him think differently, nodded and said: "It will take a while for the chief of staff to come over, you can arrange the personnel left behind in the Persian Governor's Mansion and let the chief of staff come over to receive it." ”

After Qu Chengxing arranged these things, he didn't even go to the joint exercise with the Great Food Navy early the next morning, and went directly to Wolong Port, while Wu Sanxing stayed behind and took several staff officers from the staff office and two Izumo-class ships to start teaching Amdullah the tricks of wolf pack tactics at sea little by little. This tactic, which was born from the sail warship combat method, was supported by sufficient speed and free power, and it glowed with stronger power, especially after using the speed advantage to reduce the whole to zero, the continuous artillery fire made the eyes of all the officers and men of the Great Food Empire who participated in the exercise glow. For the big cannibals who were a whole era behind the tactics of naval warfare, this tactic was already making them rush to the heart. Only Wu Sanxing couldn't help but crook the corners of his mouth when he saw everyone's excitement. I'm afraid the Great Food Navy still doesn't know how powerful its northern enemy, the Great Qin Navy, really is, right? However, Wu Sanxing didn't remind Amdullah of them, after all, although the Great Qin Navy is strong, but for them, as long as there is artillery, Wu Sanxing is confident that even if it is a wooden sailboat, he can play the wolf pack tactics to the fullest.

Qu Chengxing himself did not expect that an unintentional move by himself in the Persian Governorate would create the birth of a naval rookie in the future.